The Role of the Logistician in Defense Acquisitions
The Role of the Logistician in Defense Acquisitions
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ABSTRACT
This paper will describe the role of the logistician throughout United States Department of Defense acquisition programs and strategies. It will be chronologically approached from design, planning, demonstration, refinement and sustainment phases. The role of the logistician will be characterized as paramount to the overall success of acquisition efforts and ultimate success of our fighting men and women in the field.
Introduction
The role of the logistician in the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition process is one of the most important to the successful life cycle of a system, subsystem, or process. It is the logistician who has the broad, comprehensive field experience necessary to integrate all facets of the acquisition process to ultimately satisfy user requirements in the field, the customer the process is developed to support. Without experienced, competent logisticians involved in the process, the program risks not meeting warfighter needs and ultimately failing the American public in our protection.
Acquisition Logistics Management Acquisition Logistics is a multi-functional, technical management discipline associated with the design, development, test, production, fielding, sustainment, and improvement and/or modification of cost-effective systems that achieve the user 's peacetime and wartime readiness requirements. The major focus of acquisition logistics is to ensure the system is designed for supportability and the support elements are acquired and provided to the customer. According to DoD Directive 5000.1, The Defense Acquisition System, under the Total Systems Approach, the Program Manager (PM) becomes the single point of accountability for accomplishing program objectives for total life-cycle systems management, including sustainment. (USD AT&L, 2003) The PM applies human systems integration to optimize total system performance
Instructor:
ABSTRACT
This paper will describe the role of the logistician throughout United States Department of Defense acquisition programs and strategies. It will be chronologically approached from design, planning, demonstration, refinement and sustainment phases. The role of the logistician will be characterized as paramount to the overall success of acquisition efforts and ultimate success of our fighting men and women in the field.
Introduction
The role of the logistician in the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition process is one of the most important to the successful life cycle of a system, subsystem, or process. It is the logistician who has the broad, comprehensive field experience necessary to integrate all facets of the acquisition process to ultimately satisfy user requirements in the field, the customer the process is developed to support. Without experienced, competent logisticians involved in the process, the program risks not meeting warfighter needs and ultimately failing the American public in our protection.
Acquisition Logistics Management Acquisition Logistics is a multi-functional, technical management discipline associated with the design, development, test, production, fielding, sustainment, and improvement and/or modification of cost-effective systems that achieve the user 's peacetime and wartime readiness requirements. The major focus of acquisition logistics is to ensure the system is designed for supportability and the support elements are acquired and provided to the customer. According to DoD Directive 5000.1, The Defense Acquisition System, under the Total Systems Approach, the Program Manager (PM) becomes the single point of accountability for accomplishing program objectives for total life-cycle systems management, including sustainment. (USD AT&L, 2003) The PM applies human systems integration to optimize total system performance
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